Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent in Berlin's American Chamber of Commerce are Jews. Last week they were unhappy. From all over the world irate Jews sent cables denouncing them for failing to denounce the Nazi Governor of Berlin, bullet-headed Dr. Julius Lippert, when he addressed the Chamber at luncheon thus: "Economically nothing has happened to the Jews of Germany. Not a single dispossession or destruction of a so-called Jewish enterprise has taken place. If a Jew has proved to the State that he is ready to fulfill all the duties put upon him which every other inhabitant of our Fatherland...
Suave alibi of Berlin's American Chamber: Nazi Lippert was their "guest...
While a high Nazi official in Berlin was telling the world last week that in Germany today Jews are "economically untouched" (see above), local Nazi satraps got on with their work. In Leipzig, where the famed Fair will be attended this week by no Jewish buyers except the most furtive, Governor Martin Mutschmann of Saxony emotionally declared: "In the dark period when the whole world beset us, the Führer showed the German people the road to the light. He gave this people confidence and created possibilities for work without having to make use of the raw-material resources...
...Berlin, where Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht keeps telling the restive and doubtful Realmleader that business is business. Dr. Schacht last week made a sort of last stand by defiantly announcing that in the Reichsbank, of which he is Governor, Jews will be safe in their jobs. Lately, bitter Nazi district leaders have been saying that "Dr. Schacht, with his Jewish-tainted international banker mentality, is a menace to the spiritual rebirth of the Fatherland...
...written later than seven years ago. Though not hot off the griddle, they are nevertheless served up with such neatness and dispatch that their taste is still fresh. Exile Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Josephus) thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other countries, were destroyed, I thought the time had come to collect those of my shorter stories which I could still lay hands...